1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458854003321

Autore

Dundes Alan

Titolo

Parsing Through Customs [[electronic resource] ] : Essays by a Freudian Folklorist / / Alan Dundes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, WI, USA, : University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

University of Wisconsin Press

ISBN

1-282-78815-9

9786612788154

0-299-11263-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

398/.019

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and folklore

PSYCHOLOGY

General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698324303321

Autore

Brodt-Giles D

Titolo

Clean cities and alternative fuels data center quarterly report [[electronic resource] ] : 1st quarter FY 2006 / / D. Brodt-Giles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

United States. Dept. of Energy

Descrizione fisica

18 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

NREL/MP ; ; 540-39539

Soggetti

Air quality management - United States

Transportation - Energy conservation - Environmental aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 8, 2008).

"March 2006."



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779541903321

Autore

Hoffman Brian B

Titolo

Adrenaline [[electronic resource] /] / Brian B. Hoffman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-674-07473-4

0-674-07471-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

616.4/5

Soggetti

Adrenaline - History

History - 19th century

History - 20th century

History - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. The Goldilocks Principle -- 2. Ruled by Glands -- 3. A Country Doctor's Remarkable Discovery -- 4. Finding a Needle in a Haystack -- 5. Adrenaline Zips from Bench to Bedside -- 6. Mind the Gap: Chemical Transmission from Sympathetic Nerves to Organs -- 7. How Adrenaline Stimulates Cells -- 8. Lock and Key: Receptors for Adrenaline -- 9. New Drugs from Old Molecules -- 10. Adrenaline Junkies -- Appendix: Adrenaline's Nobel Connections: An Extended Cast of Characters -- Notes -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Inducing highs of excitement, anger, and terror, adrenaline fuels the extremes of human experience. A rush empowers superhuman feats in emergencies. Risk-taking junkies seek to replicate this feeling in dangerous recreations. And a surge may literally scare us to death. Adrenaline brings us up to speed on the fascinating molecule that drives some of our most potent experiences. Adrenaline was discovered in 1894 and quickly made its way out of the lab into clinics around the world. In this engrossing account, Brian Hoffman examines adrenaline in all its capacities, from a vital regulator of physiological functions to the subject of Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs. Because its biochemical pathways are prototypical, adrenaline has had



widespread application in hormone research leading to the development of powerful new drugs. Hoffman introduces the scientists to whom we owe our understanding, tracing the paths of their discoveries and aspirations and allowing us to appreciate the crucial role adrenaline has played in pushing modern medicine forward. Hoffman also investigates the vivid, at times lurid, place adrenaline occupies in the popular imagination, where accounts of its life-giving and lethal properties often leave the realm of fact. Famous as the catalyst of the "fight or flight" response, adrenaline has also received forensic attention as a perfect poison, untraceable in the bloodstream-and rumors persist of its power to revive the dead. True to the spirit of its topic, Adrenaline is a stimulating journey that reveals the truth behind adrenaline's scientific importance and enduring popular appeal.